1 The entrance to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE 2 Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 3 An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 4 Soft language issued from their spittleless lips as they swished in slow circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds, dragging their long tails amid the rattling canisters.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 5 Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted canisters disposed along its ledge.
6 The canisters were almost out of her reach; I made a motion to aid her; she turned upon me as a miser might turn if any one attempted to assist him in counting his gold.